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RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU

Online OC 139.99.233.31:28029 checked 12m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 2/ 80 slots 2% full +1+41%against this time yesterday
7-day average15peak 64
Rank#754top 3% · #17 in OC
RegionOCOC · group solo
Last wipe6d agoweekly schedule
Next wipe7hFri 30 Oct, 05:53 UTC
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0510152022:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608022:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 3% of all ranked servers, top 8% in OC, and #35 of the solo servers (top 16%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Friday 30 October, 05:53 UTC, in 7h. Every Friday at 05:53 UTC · high confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
43
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 4

Coming wipes

7hFri 30 Oct, 05:53 UTC
6d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
7d 7hFri 6 Nov, 05:53 UTC
14d 7hFri 13 Nov, 05:53 UTC
21d 7hFri 20 Nov, 05:53 UTC
28d 7hFri 27 Nov, 05:53 UTC
34d 21hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 7hFri 4 Dec, 05:53 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 23 OctFri 16 OctFri 9 Oct
020406080+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 64, 4 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 23 Oct, 05:53 UTC6d ago 64 – running 9
Fri 16 Oct, 05:53 UTC13d ago 31 halved by day 5 7 days 8
Fri 9 Oct, 05:53 UTC20d ago 35 halved by day 4 7 days 6
Thu 1 Oct, 17:47 UTC FW28d ago 30 halved by day 5 7.5 days 3
Fri 25 Sep, 06:53 UTC34d ago 34 halved by day 4 6.5 days 3
Fri 18 Sep, 06:53 UTC41d ago 47 halved by day 2 7 days 1

Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

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The interview

Quick answers

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Lists and tags

Who runs RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU?

A rustfornoobs.com hostname is published by RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU and by 54 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers, Oceania Rust servers, live, Community servers, by the numbers, Solo Rust servers, by the numbers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: Oceania; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Solo; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week; Average players: 10+ on average.

What do the server tags on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU mean?

These are the tags RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp80 (Max players): It has 80 slots; ts1 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 1; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^w (Weekly): It wipes weekly; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; OC (Oceania): Its place in the server browser is under Oceania. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Population

How does RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU sits at #754, inside the top 3% of ranked servers and at #17 in Oceania. Within the solo category, it sits at #35.

How many players are on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU right now?

The current tally at RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU: 2 players across 80 slots. Averaging 15 players across seven days, it topped out at 64. Look at 04:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 11 players on average.

Server details

Is RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 42 minutes ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 78 server fps, with a low of 71. The world carried as many as 111,811 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 4,012 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU located?

With its OC tag, RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU lists itself in Oceania. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 139.99.233.31:28029.

Which Rust version is RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU runs on Windows. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 43 players at their busiest. 4 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell under half by day 4 whenever it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU?

Wipes on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU follow a every Friday at 05:53 UTC pattern. Friday 30 October at 05:53 UTC is the date its next wipe is due. 6 days 16 hours is when the present world was made. The tags say wipes happen every week.

Map and rules

Which map does RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU run?

Generated by the game with seed 18989, the map on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU is procedural and 3,500 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. On the map name: RustForNoobs Generated Maps.

What are the rules and settings on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU. Solo play only: teams are not allowed. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Community is its listing in the server browser. Oxide plugins are running on it. The server's own word for it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | AU?

Enter client.connect 139.99.233.31:28029 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. For more, see https://rustfornoobs.com.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp80,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^w,^v,OC,gmrust,cs168909,ts1,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp80
Max players It has 80 slots.
ts1
Group limit Each team is capped at 1.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^w
Weekly It wipes weekly.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.

Region

OC
Oceania Its place in the server browser is under Oceania.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.